Medical Hypotheses
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

Medical Hypotheses
Overview

Impact Factor

1.538

H Index

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Impact Factor

3.726

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States
Journal ISSN: 03069877, 15322777
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
History: 1975-ongoing
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks 'what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer 'Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary'. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



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SCR Impact Factor

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SCR Journal Ranking

Medical Hypotheses
SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

0.441

Medical Hypotheses
Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Medical Hypotheses
Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    4.096 3.472 3.153
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    3.726 3.295 3.04
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    1.368 1.455 1.462
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    1.35 1.336 1.264
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    1.331 1.241 1.257
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    1.134 1.168 1.195
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    1.179 1.251 1.263
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    1.298 1.313 1.288
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    1.252 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    1.324 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    1.205 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    1.047 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    1.11 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    1.107 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    1.113 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    1.218 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    1.407 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    1.098 NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    0.726 NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    0.833 NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    0.872 NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    0.832 NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    0.814 NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

Impact factor (IF) is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Find out more: What is a good impact factor?


III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

Medical Hypotheses
H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

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Medical Hypotheses
H-Index History